The City of Women

In The City of Women offers a multitude of perspectives that refer to both well-known and established research topics related to art created by female artists, as well as trace the changes in current artistic sensibilities in this area. On the one hand, the project Z trzewi (Gutsy) employs aesthetic feminist artistic language and exhibition design that is also political, while on the other, in Inne jutra (Other Tomorrows), the curators challenge established feminist norms. They seek to complicate the image of art created by female artists by introducing fluid categories that cut across binary identity divisions between he and she. Wiktoria Szczupacka takes a more academic approach, calling attention to the overlooked history of feminist emancipation in communist Poland. Karolina Gembara presents an activist point of view, showing the struggle for reproductive rights from a very contemporary perspective.

The exhibition opens at a time when attention to women’s rights in Poland is once again taking a back seat, and years of globalization and activism are not yielding the desired results. The fundamental demand of various forms of feminist art is equality, and art strengthens the political imagination that can give it real shape.